CRIMINAL OFFENSE AS A CATEGORY OF ACTS PROHIBITED IN THE CRIMINAL CODE

Purpose. The material aims to describe the legal nature of the criminal offense, as well as to determine the place of this in the system of criminally prohibited acts. The order of differentiation of public responsibility on administratively-punishable offenses and criminally-punishable offenses is deprived of scientific methodology. Therefore, the institution of criminal misconduct is able to change the situation, that is: to create a new basis for placing "borderline" offenses into the correct code. Summary. The research resulted in the author's version of the scientific approach to modeling the Institute of criminal misconduct in the national criminal law. Practical importance. The criteria of criminal offenses obtained in the study and the signs of difference between offenses and crimes can be used in the formation of the test of the law on criminal misconduct. The proposed explanation of the legal nature of criminal misconduct will help to qualitatively differentiate criminal liability. The value of the work lies in the need of science and society to solve the problem of differentiation of public responsibility.

criminal offense, differentiation of public responsibility, crime, criminal responsibility, legal consequences of criminal offense